Instructional Coach - Secondary (2026 - 2027 School Year

Job Description:

Instructional Coach
- Secondary

Crossroads Charter Schools is looking for highly effective, highly qualified and highly motivated individuals to join our organization. Ideal candidates will have experience in urban education and be committed to our four core values:
High Expectations, Real World Learning, Creative Culture, and Belonging.

Kansas City, Missouri, United States
- In Person Only

At Crossroads Charter Schools, we…

• Develop school environments where all students are actively and meaningfully engaged in rigorous instruction and authentic learning tasks.
• Interrupt the “school to prison pipeline” - policies and practices that are directly and indirectly pushing the most at-risk students out of school and on a pathway to the juvenile and criminal justice systems.
• Engage families as partners in meaningful ways.
• Nurture an open, collaborative, and trusting environment because the work is enormous, deeply personal, emotional and often difficult.
• Engage in on-going job-embedded professional development through co-teaching and co-planning

The ideal candidate exemplifies excellent proficiency in the following:

• Constantly collaborating and effectively communicating with the leadership team
• Identifying system-wide strengths and areas of growth
• Managing and completing tasks both within and on the organization
• Creating goals and implementing action plans in order to achieve goals
• Maintaining a solutions-oriented and kids-focused mindset
• Understanding of adult growth, personalysis, and differentiated teacher supports needed across varying teacher knowledge and experience
• Elevating student learning at all levels across all content areas and teacher proficiency levels by connecting teachers to the needed resources, supports and/or training

Please provide a cover letter and at least 3 letters of reference.

The primary responsibility of our instructional coach is to train, coach, and offer support for teachers in implementing learner-driven approaches based on the latest education research on best practices through on-site professional development. The instructional coach collaborates with staff to co-plan, co-deliver, and individualize instruction for all students in a class; work together creatively to accommodate special needs, diversity and educational backgrounds of the students in the class;

and overcome instructional challenges constructively. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in both English language arts and math instruction. The instructional coach is a hardworking, goal-oriented and enthusiastic professional with excellent subject knowledge and a sound understanding of the Missouri Learning Standards and Common Core State Standards.

This is a 10-month position, however, it requires 10 extra days throughout the school year mutually scheduled with the principal. There is a $7,000.00 stipend paid for the 10 extra days.

• Work with building admin to execute on academic vision and goals
• Work with building administrators to create quarterly and semester academic goals
• Collaborate with teachers to identify, share, and coach best practices for reaching all students including students with disabilities, ELL, and other specialized needs.
• Provide educators professional learning opportunities to equip each teacher and school leader with the ability to use formal and informal student data to refine instructional strategies and plan and provide appropriate small group or individualized instruction and interventions.
• Assist the faculty in the data team process, the creation of common formative assessments, the ongoing review and refinement of curriculum and learning objectives and the implementation of the response to intervention (RTI) strategies.
• Help ensure the learning environment is dynamic and conducive to high-level learning.
• Support educators with analyzing student performance, examining students’ educational plans and needs, and assess students’ high school, college- and career-readiness.
• Provide teachers and administrators with professional learning on the use of…